Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2011

For 2-needle machines class 768 and 868, Dürkopp Adler offers a special sewing gauge for the exact and steady sewing of fancy seams in leather on the right and left side of the welt. A special guide with a tunnel grants an always constant distance between the seam and the welt on both sides.
This type of seam is often wanted in home upholstery.

For felled seams in leather normally an adjustabe additional edge guide is used. With the innovative sewing feet with integrated guide from Dürkopp Adler you will not need this additional guide anymore.
Adjustable guides are a great help, but have the disadvantage of slightly varying distance between seam and edge due to manual adjustment.

The advantages are:

easy handling due to small sewing gauge size and free sewing area

always correct and constant distance between edge and seam

constant high quality sewing result

Dürkopp Adler offers tw types of feet (see attached pictures):

feet with long sword for mainly straight seams

feet with short sword for frequent curved seams

All feet are available with integrated guide on the right or the left side of the needle.

Click on the photos to enlarge:

Special sewing foot with integrated edge guide with long sword

Special sewing foot with integrated edge guide with short sword

M-Type 868-390322 using special sewing foot with integrated edge guide with short sword

The whole program with part numbers can be checked in our attachment brochure starting on page 31.

The sewing feet can be used in the following Dürkopp Adler classes (onlyone-needle machines!):

Dürkopp Adler offers extra large hooks (XXL-Hooks) for various medium and heavy duty sewing machines, from older models like 767 to the actual M-Type series.
These hooks have 70% more capacity compared with the regular hooks, which brings a lot of benefits to the user.
See details about the advantages in the XXL flyer.

Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011

In 150 years of its history, Dürkopp Adler has developed and produced nearly any sewing machine you can imagine. Obviously, during the process of launching new models and discontinuing others, helpful attachments, sewing gauges, or other parts appeared and disappeared, too, and not in every case the decision to discontinue something was right.

Some of these obsolete parts may be desperately needed by many people, but the headquarter may not know it because communication around the world used to be difficult before the internet came up. Today, we are in a new situation and are able again to discuss these issues effectively with helpful tools like forums.

I invite everybody who likes Dürkopp Adler machines to think about this, and post your suggestions for helpful parts, attachments, sewing gauges, or any other equipment which should be relaunched or invented to make the most out of your Dürkopp Adler sewing machine. Joinour FORUM and make Dürkopp Adler produce what you are missing!

We will check these suggestions, analyze and give feedback. Of course, production must be profitable for us, too, so if you want Dürkopp Adler to produce something as a regular part or attachment, you should ask other friends or machine users to join and post their comments, too.

If you have something you need, but most probably will need it only one time, you may ask for a special manufacturing at any of our distributors around the world. They will forward your requirements to us, so that we can analyize if we can make it or not. See this post for more information.

Even though many wear & tear parts are available for decades after a machine has been discontinued, many parts for old machines are no longer available as standard spare parts.

In these cases, a single or special manufacturing of the required part could be made. Especially for mechanical parts, there are good chances that the part can be delivered.

The delivery time varies normally between 2 and 8 weeks, depending on how difficult it is to produce the part. These parts are all manufactured in Germany, so they are not cheap. But they will fit to your machine because they are made based on the original technical drawing of the part.

Not all of these parts are still being produced, but in some cases they could be done by a special manufacturing.
The files are pretty large with 2MB to 9 MB, so it could take a while to download it.

All available vintage documents are listed in the download section of this blog.
Who is searching for specific old or vintage documents can leave a comment here without registration. I will check it and post it if it is available.

All available vintage documentations are listed in the download section of this blog.
Who is searching for specific old or vintage documents can leave a comment here without registration. I will check it and post it if it is available.

Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2011

Spare parts for industrial sewing machines are extremely important for the productivity and competitiveness of the companies in the textile industry.

There are a lot of issues to report, discuss and explain. That´s what this new blog is for: News from the world of Dürkopp Adler parts, accessories, applications, tips & tricks and helpful links and media.

This new blog has started on September 27, 2011. I am curious what will be published here in the future.

Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011

When using an industrial sewing machine, you will earn money if your machine has the right productivity in relation to the investment. The cost of usage must be affordable, too.

The productivity of an industrial sewing machine depends on

The sewing speed or cycle time: High-speed sewing drives or possibilities of overlapped working methods have positive effects on the productivity. Modern automatic sewing units have extremely short cycle times and often do many operations in one.

The quality of the machine: Machine breakdowns have a big negative impact on the productivity.

The possibilities for an easy service and maintenance: Quick change of wear & tear parts or easy access to maintenance areas avoid long idle times.

The ability of the machine user: Trained workers are crucial to ensure a high output.

The design of the working place: If the fabric is not handled properly, no guides are used or the machine design is disadvantageous, cycle times will be bad.

The quality of the spare parts: Only high quality spare parts grant a constant quality and lead to less breakdowns.

The quality of the local service: If you cannot fix a machine by yourself, you should have a qualified service partner.

The availability of a good machine documentation: Only with a good parts list and a good manual you will be able to run your machine properly and identify necessary parts without problems.

The strength of the machine manufacturer/brand: Make sure the manufacturer can supply all necessary spare parts quickly to you or your local dealer or service partner.

The quality of the consultancy when you buy a machine: A good and skilled sales consultant will offer you the appropriate machine for your requirement. If he or she cannot suggest alternative machines or helpful additional equipment, he or she is most probably not very skilled and you will not get the best solution.

The cost of usage depends on

The power consumption: Modern high tech sewing drives have low power consumption. If you use a lot of machines, this will make a difference.

The consumption of compressed air: Compressed air is very expensive. Make sure there is no air leakage in your compressor and the tubes and use good air filters to avoid pollution. Today, many modern sewing machines without compressed air offer the same functions as the older models with compressed air.

The spare parts prices: Cheap parts very often are very bad and cost more at the end, because you will need much more parts and pay higher freight for more deliveries.

The interest rates for your investment.

Although investments in sewing machines are not as expensive as in other industries, it makes sense to think about all these points before you take a decision.

Dürkopp Adler as one of the world´s best known sewing machine brands with 150 years of experience cares about all the points above and offers customized affordable solutions through authorized distribution partners for you so that you really can earn money with sewing machines.

High quality spare parts compatible for other brands are also available from stock in the online shop sew24.com.

Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011

Order compatible wear & tear parts for various sewing machine brands in Dürkopp Adler quality from stock in the online shop http://www.sew24.com/.
Payment is easy by credit card for example. A worldwide quick delivery with reasonable cost is granted. Especially hooks and bobbin cases are recommeded and can be identified easily.With this offer, Dürkopp Adler strengthens its position as a leading service and parts supplier for the industrial sewing industry and sets new standards for the future distribution of industrial sewing machine parts.
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Montag, 3. Oktober 2011

The synchronizers P6-1 (Mat.Nr, 0990 254306) and P7-1 (Mat.Nr. 9800 327003) are only available as spare parts through the Dürkopp Adler Sales organization. Efka does not offer these synchronizers anymore.

Due to a drastic price increase of an electronic pre-supplier, the sales price has unfortunately increased significantly, too. Instead of discontinuing these materials due to the high cost, Dürkopp Adler has decided in favour of its customers to stock a large quantity of these synchronizers to secure a spare parts supply for a long period of time.

The synchronizers are used for DC1600 motors from Efka. These motors may be exchanged by the new model DC1550. Check further information about it in a post about exchange possibilities for DC1600 motors.

Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011

No, the production of the DC1600 sewing motor is discontinued. It is not available as a spare part anymore.
However, old DC1600 motors can still be repaired. To do this, it is necessary to send it to Dürkopp Adler in Germany or an authorized service partner through your local distribution partner.

If even a repair is not possible anymore, the old DC1600 motor can often be replaced by the new DC1550 motor with an exchange kit. This kit should be assembled to your machine only by your local Dürkopp Adler distribution partner because there are lots of different exchange kits for various machine classes.